If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct experience. Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about god, the absolute, and objective values as completely nonsensical. Ayer was only 24 when he finished LANGUAGE, TRUTH & LOGIC, yet it shook the foundations of Anglo-American philosophy and made its author notorious. It became a classic text, c...

An essential guide to managing your money for artists, freelancers, tech workers, influencers, and innovators, from an irreverent financial advisorThere’s a good reason why so many people feel like the financial system doesn’t serve them: it wasn’t made for them. The system was built for a narrow version of adulthood with one high earner, one caretaker, maybe a couple of kids. For everyone else? They’re out of luck.Too often, personal finance leaves the gro...

The front cover of the second edition of Language, Truth and Logic carried this statement in capital letters: ‘THE CLASSIC TEXT WHICH FOUNDED LOGICAL POSITIVISM - AND MODERN BRITISH PHILOSOPHY.’It was a bold statement, but the book, first published in 1936 when A. J. Ayer was just 25 and a lecturer on philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford, drew unstinting praise from leading figures in the field, including Bertrand Russell. Its effect was to ‘sweep away the cobwebs and revitalise Bri...

An essential guide to managing your money for artists, freelancers, tech workers, influencers, and innovators, from an irreverent financial advisorThere’s a good reason why so many people feel like the financial system doesn’t serve them: it wasn’t made for them. The system was built for a narrow version of adulthood with one high earner, one caretaker, maybe a couple of kids. For everyone else? They’re out of luck.Too often, personal finance leaves the gro...